Biografie von Carl Gustaf Simon NELSON (1898-1988)

Birth place: Horby, Sweden

Addresses: Sioux City, IA; NYC; Boston, MA

Profession: Painter, graphic artist, teacher

Studied: Chicago Acad. FA; ASL, with Kimon Nicolaides and Kenneth Hayes Miller.

Exhibited: CI, 1935-38; WMAA, 1934, 1936, 1938; PAFA Ann., 1935; AIC, 1936; TMA, 1936; AFA traveling exh, 1937; Am. Artists Cong.; WFNY 1939; Colorado Springs FA Center, 1935, 1938; Georgia Tech., 1950; Univ. Illinois, 1950; WMA, 1947, 1949; Inst. Contemporary Art, Boston, 1949; New England P. & S. traveling exh., 1949; Soc. Indp. Artists, traveling exh., 1949; DeCordova and Dana Mus., 1951-53, 1963; Cambridge AA, 1950-58 (prizes), 1960, 1963, 1965; Boston YWCA, 1953; Denver Art Mus., 1953; Natick Art Festival, 1957-58 (prizes); Maine Artists, 1960-62; Boston Art Festival, 1953, 1955, 1960-61, 1964; Maine State Art Festival, 1962-64; Colby Col., 1964; AFA traveling exh., 1964-65; G.W.V. Smith Mus., Springfield, MA, 1964; solo: Macbeth Gal., 1931, 1933; Brockton Library, 1954-58; Boris Mirski Gal., 1946-60, 1962; Iowa traveling exh., 1940; Fitchburg Art Mus., 1957; MIT Faculty Club, 1958; Univ. Maine, 1960. Awards: Jordan Marsh Co.,1953.

Member: ASL; Tiffany Fnd.; Am. Artists Congress; AEA (N.E. chapter pres., 1954; vice-pres., 1955-60); Soc. Indp. Artists, Boston.

Work: Binghamton (NY) Mus.; Dept. Labor Bldg., Wash., DC; Arnold Arboretum, Harvard; American Peoples School, NY; WMA; AGAA; Walker Art Center; Boston YWCA; Fitchburg Art Mus.; Brandeis Univ.; Univ. Maine.

Comments: Came to U.S. at age five. Positions: art instructor, American Peoples School (Adult Educ. Project); art instructor, YWCA Work Shop, Boston, MA, 1946-; Cambridge School Design, 1948-52; Cummington School of Art, 1949-52.

Sources: WW66; WW47; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 153; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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